You Give Love A Bad Name From Bon Jovi Reaches One Billion Streams On Spotify

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JAKARTA - 'You Give Love A Bad Name', Bon Jovi's hit song from the album 'Slippery When Wet' (1986) won one billion streams on Spotify. This is the second song, after 'Livin On A Prayer' achieved the same thing in January 2203.

That way, Bon Jovi has two songs on Spotify's Billions Club list, a putat list that was first launched in 2020 that includes all songs on Spotify that have surpassed a billion streams on the platform.

"You Give Love A Bad Name" joins other songs such as Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters", "Dream On" from Aerosmith, "Eye Of The Tiger" from Survivor, and Papa Roach's "Last Resort".

In addition, there are also the songs "Paradise City" from Guns NRoses and Evanescence's "Bring Me To Life". The playlist is known to have been achieved by at least 500 songs so far.

Meanwhile, "You Give Love A Bad Name" was written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and Desmond Child. This song reached the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and became the first hit of BON JOVI.

In 2007, the song was back on the charts at No.29 after Blake Lewis performed it at American Idol.

Bon Jovi collaborated with Desmond Child on four songs from "Slippery When Wet", including the "Livin' On A Prayer" single. The third studio album is known to have sold 25 million worldwide.